Category Archive: Around Baseball

Mar 08

2012 NL West preview: Los Angeles Dodgers

Clayton Kershaw

Time for a quick primer on each team within the Rockies division and now we get to the team with the 2011 National League Cy Young award winner and the best player in the NL in 2011: the Los Angeles Dodgers Previous: Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants 2011 review: The ’11 version of the Los …

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Mar 07

2012 NL West preview: San Francisco Giants

Time for a quick primer on each team within the Rockies division and first up is the team with all that pitching: the San Francisco Giants Previous: Arizona Diamondbacks 2011 review: The San Francisco Giants finished second in the National League West last year but eight full games behind the Division Champions. The Giants finished …

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Mar 06

Rockies’ response to Alex White’s DUI is troubling

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know by now that Rockies’ starting pitcher Alex White was arrested for DUI in Scottsdale on Saturday night.  I’m not here to destroy White over this.  People make mistakes.  I think he’s probably a decent human being.  However, before we go much further, let’s get one …

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Mar 03

MLB Networks Top 100 Right Now – failure

This past week MLB Network counted down its list of the “Top 100 Players Right Now”. Always good for creating arguments. Just when I think analytics are starting to make an impact because of shows like Clubhouse Confidential I hear Mitch Williams say that he would rather have Jose Valverde over Justin Verlander. His rationale? …

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Mar 02

MLB expands playoff format

Today Major League Baseball announced that they are expanding the playoff format to include two additional Wild Card teams. This makes a total of 10 teams that will make the playoffs, five from each league. The two Wild Card teams will play each other in a “play-in game” in which the winner takes all. Sort …

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Mar 01

2012 NL West preview: Arizona Diamondbacks

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Time for a primer on each team within the Rockies division and first up is the surprise team from 2011: the Arizona Diamondbacks 2011 review: A few days ago I was listening to 104.3 The Fan on my way home from the gym and a nut called in and essentially stated that everyone thought the …

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Feb 28

Should beer be allowed in the clubhouse?

If you are going to drink in the clubhouse, at least drink a good beer

I don’t know this for certain but I have never seen any player drink a beer in the Rockies clubhouse. I have been in the clubhouse before games and after games and never seen anyone sip a frosty adult beverage. I have seen some of the post game spreads and seen some of the players …

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Dec 15

HOF Voting — It’s the most hypocritical time of the year

Ty Cobb, in a fine display of sportsmanship.

Well, it’s that time of year again.  No, not Christmas.  It’s Hall of Fame time and that means it’s time for most of the BBWAA to get all high and mighty on us.  They’ll exclude guys because of arbitrary numbers and ridiculous standards.  But, more than anything they’ll exclude guys because of the dreaded C …

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Nov 22

A bad World Series for a closer = career over?

This didn't scene didn't ruin Brad Lidge's career

There are certain things that baseball writers have been saying about baseball since the beginning of time. Some of these things are beliefs about the game that one sports writer learned from his mentor or from his dad and they never thought that their pops might be wrong so they just keep spewing the same …

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Nov 20

Nooooooooooooo!!!

If this were hockey and the Rockies needed an enforcer than Gomes would be their man...but this is baseball.

After Dan O’Dowd signed had epic fails last offseason with the likes of Jose Lopez and Ty Wigginton I read this: With Michael Cuddyer​ and Josh Willingham​ looking for three-year contracts, the possibility exists that the Rockies will shift their focus to a more powerful platoon player to pair with Seth Smith​. With that in …

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